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Exercise 1.4 (Basic properties of the simple integral)
Let be simple unsigned functions.
- 1.
- (Linearity) we have
- 2.
- (Equivalence) if almost everywhere , then .
- 3.
- (Finiteness) we have if and only if (1) is finite almost everywhere and (2) its support has finite measure.
- 4.
- (Monotonicity) if almost everywhere then .
- 5.
- (Markov inequality) Show that for any we have
Answers
We refer to the equivalent exercises from Terence Tao’s An Introduction to Measure Theory:
- 1.
- See Exercise 1.4.33 (iii,iv).
- 2.
- See Exercise 1.4.33 (vi).
- 3.
- See Exercise 1.4.33 (vii).
- 4.
- See Exercise 1.4.33 (i).
- 5.
- Let
be a simple representation of
and assume that .
Let
be such that
and .
We then equivalently need to prove that
or, in other words,
But this follows by the definition of .